Takeaway:"We've been told all our lives that we can only call ourselves well-read once we've read the Great Books. We tried. We got halfway through Infinite Jest and halfway through the SparkNotes on Finnegans Wake. But a few pages into Bleak House, we realized that not all the Great Books have aged well. Some are racist and some are sexist, but most are just really, really boring. So we—and a group of un-boring writers—give you permission to strike these books from the canon. Here's what you should read instead."GQ

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Takeaway: "Some films go down in cinema history for their costumes alone. Perhaps they perfectly capture a unique cultural moment before it disappears. Maybe they illuminate the brilliant wardrobe of a bygone era. And sometimes, the costumes just look really cool. Swingers is not one of those films." Grailed

Takeaway: "As smoking accessories have modernized in the past 10 years, and as more states have legalized sales, grinding and rolling up bud has gradually become a more obscure ritual. And the era of the hastily rolled marijuana cigarette — crystallized by everyone from Cheech and Chong to Barack Obama — is slowly coming to a close." The Ringer